CVE-2026-61836

Directus: Authorization-dependent response served from unsegmented cache key

State: Published
Severity: 8.6 High
Published: Jul 15, 2026
Updated: Jul 15, 2026
Reserved: Jul 10, 2026

Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 12.0.0, when response caching is enabled, the cache-key derivation in api/src/utils/get-cache-key.ts includes version, path, query, and accountability.user but omits authorization context such as share, role, roles, admin, app, and policies. Directus share tokens and anonymous requests can both reduce to user null, so different shares or anonymous clients requesting the same URL and query can receive a permission-filtered cached response without permission re-evaluation. This issue is fixed in version 12.0.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.6 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-524 Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Affected Products

Product	Versions
directusdirectus	< 12.0.0Affected

References

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